Actually it was
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No, it was a secondary consideration so much so that the F-111 was originally intended for the role, but they actually ended up creating a fighter capable of dogfighting, whereas the F-14 was designed to be a missile carrier
It was designed a bit for everything, not primarily for dogfights but it was part of the requirement. it’s a fleet defense interceptor only, the wings were designed to do this job perfectly to go fast and high but also expend to land and take off from aircraft careers but was also considered for dogfighting.
It’s in there https://www.gao.gov/assets/092339.pdf.
The Navy seemed to really love it by the way haha.
Also the Phoenix was designed for interception purposes ( either be it cruise missiles or planes). Basically Fleet Interceptor first, then missile bus and dogfighter )
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Exactly and witch is why I can say it was also designed for dogfights because it was part of requirements
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Im pretty sure a few of those were dogfights or at least in close quarters combat
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The f14 is the fighter they designed to replace the f111b that is capable of dogfighting like the multiple dogfight engagements it did in top gun/training against fa/-18,f15,f16 and hell probably even 4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron the Red Eagles who flew mig17,mig21,mig23
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You lot really are taking things too literally. Objectively speaking, it is capable of engaging in dogfights and has probably done so on a few occasions, but the point is that its primary purpose was and remains to serve as a system capable of intercepting missiles and aircraft heading for an aircraft carrier using AIM-54s.
R60s are ass, as well as that you could just MP towards it avoid all the R27s then smash them. so no.
It was its primary mission but not all f14 had to do it they can also do other missions as well like tarps pod or Lantirns pod or even before the budget cuts happened it was supposed to be capable of carrying almost everything the navy armaments inventory had.
The plane came out at 1974… there was literally no contest from a soviet plane in a dogfight/gunfight to F-14 for 10 years.
What wasn’t designed for dogfighting?
Yes , F-15 was better at high alt, Tomcat was better at low alt . Even against a 16 ,a 14 was better at mid/high alt (over 10km) …ok at lows 16 would destroy it. Talking a 16A block 5 or 10 .
But , overall it was designed to dogfight , with its advantages and disadvantages.
RL wasn’t like in game.
If we had historical/timeline MM you’d laugh really!
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It’s a shame how the F-14 suffered during its upgrades
Your talking about F-16A? In that case, other countries had better F-16’s
Yeah aim54 in it’s botched state have noting on the r77 and other modern fox 3
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Yup
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Talk about in depth research, and Im sure it would still get shot down in the bug reports for “Not enough info” lol
What do you want to make a report about?
I dont, all hope is lost lol
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